From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:02:02 -0400 From: john@csplan9.rit.edu In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] FYI, glendix new 13 syscalls Topicbox-Message-UUID: 09fe5d40-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Hi, > > A quick status update: 13 system calls have been implemented - just > enough to get a basic set of utilities running. So far we have cat, > sed, grep, 8c and a few others to run. Notable executables that don?t > work are 8l, ls, awk and sam (either because they look for filesystems > that aren?t there, or depend on stat which isn?t implemented correctly > as of yet). > > Grab sources via git from here. > http://sources.glendix.org/?ptroot/glendix/main.git;ammary > >All the files inside syscall/ are to be put inside the linux kernel >tree (replacing files with the same name). The files inside loader/ >are just a normal kernel module. Both together will let you execute >native Plan 9 binaries in Linux. > >Patches, comments and suggestions are most welcome! >http://glendix.org/ > >TIA All the applications of Plan 9, with all the lightweight sensible kernel goodness of Linux? ;) Kidding aside, looks fairly interesting. I look forward to seeing it when completed. John